Baroque Keyboard Masterpieces

Unlike many anthologies of Baroque keyboard music, which include pieces of widely varying merit, this excellent volume comprises only the greatest works for the era. Intermediate and advanced pianists will find that these carefully chosen pieces offer a rewarding and satisfying reflection of the glories of Baroque.

Contents include J. S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue as well as the French Suite No. 5 and Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 906; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Solfeggietto; George Frideric Handel’s Suite No. 5 in E Major; L’Empressée, by Jean-François Dandrieu; François Couperin’s Les Tambourins; Suite in G Minor by Henry Purcell; Jean-Philippe Rameau’s La Poule; Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonata in D Minor, K.9 (“Pastorale”) and Sonata in G Minor, K.30 (“The Cat’s Fugue”); and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasia No. 1 in D Major.  Other featured composers include Dietrich Buxtehude, Louis-Claude Daquin and Jean-Baptiste Lully.